TRIGGER. (ON HOLD)

CHAPTER ONE - TRIGGER

''I got something to say.''

''Yeah! Keep kicking his face!'' as one of the girls behind Sophie yelled out while she was kicking Daniel's face, his face was full of bruises and blood, every time Sophie kicked his face with brute force he would grunt and yell, ''Stop, please!''. ''Shut up and take it.'' one of the girls said behind Sophie. ''Aw, look, the little bitch is crying!'' Sophie pointed out. After beating him up in five minutes, which felt like hours, the girls finally left the alleyway as they finally got bored.

Daniel slowly gets up from the floor, coughing and shaking. ''Agh...''. He slowly gets his bag and checks inside if the girls took anything, luckily they did not. He then slowly walks through the alleyway to his neighbourhood, people walk by him staring at his face but they continue walking and minding their business.

He limps to his house and rings the doorbell. A minute goes by and he rings the doorbell again but twice; desperate to get inside and sit near the fireplace as he was freezing in the cold, it was winter season. Another minute goes by but he heard footsteps approaching the front door, he suddenly hears the doorknob turning and the door opened... ''Daniel?!''.

It was his older sister, Daniel just slowly walked by her and went upstairs, he was about to open his bedroom door but then stares at another door on his left. It was his dad's room... ''Oh come on, what the hell happened to you Daniel?!'' Daniel ignores his sister's question and opens his bedroom door and enters his room, full of clothes on the wooden floor. He limps towards his bed and lays down, he then closes his eyes...

He slowly opens his eyes, he blinks slow then fast so he can be fully awake, he slowly gets up and looks out his window, it was sunset, he accidentally fell asleep. He gets up from his bed slowly and limps towards  his bedroom door, he then slowly walks downstairs to the bathroom. He was walking through the hallway but then his sister stopped him, ''Daniel, what happened to your face? Like I am worried, did someone gang up on you?''. ''Listen, Sarah please, I don't want to talk about this... I just want to wash my face. ''Sarah immediately yelled out, ''You literally have cuts and bruises on your face!''. ''Fine but please don't tell mom when she gets home, okay?''.

Daniel walks up to his bedroom, his sister following behind him... ''Alright, what the hell happened to you? start from the very beginning okay?'' Sarah said in her soothing and comforting voice. ''It's these three girls, they keep on bullying me. They are literally the definition of assholes, but today after school I was walking home and I didn't know that they were walking behind me until they literally pushed me on the floor, then I turned around and I saw them, Sophie was the one who made my face look like this, she literally started kicking my face with brute force, thank the lord she did not break my nose and those two other asshole girls were literally just cheering her on. I literally was begging Sophie to stop and she literally kept on doing it, I mean I...'' Daniel pauses for a moment, he was about to cry, it felt like a volcano was erupting behind his eyes, he was trying to hold back his tears. ''Let your feelings out, don't hold your tears back.''

Daniel listened to Sarah and started breaking down into to tears, ''I LITERALLY FUCKING HATE HER!'' Daniel yelled out, he was emotionally and physically in pain, ''I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL NO MORE!'' Daniel continues to cry, Sarah holds him in his arms, caressing his back. ''I am so sorry this is happening to you, screw those girls, i'll come with you to school tomorrow and we can go report it to your principal. Come on, lets go wash your face and bandage you up before mom gets home aye?'' ''Mhm...''.

Sarah washes Daniel's face with cold water, she then wraps an ice cube around a cloth and softly places it on Daniel's left eye, it was bruised badly, his whole eye was purple. ''Here, hold the cloth on your eye, let me just bandage you up. We got to be quick before mom comes back.'' After Sarah treats Daniel's wounds and using the ice, Sarah goes to the kitchen to make Daniel a tea to ease and calm his frustration.